That looks dumb

So tonight my kids and I are sitting in the food court at the local mall and my very astute 6 year old, the same one that brought us the terms "slerms" [slurpy germs you get from sharing a straw] and "rememberies", says, "Mama, do you think that odd, weird teenagers are dumb?" Then this guy walks by all in black, chains all over, etc. and she says, "He looks all gothic and dumb." As we sit there we see several gangsta wannabes and she says, "There goes that dumb "posse" again." I am cracking up because I didn't even know she knew the word 'posse'. Then she says, "That looks so dumb when they have to walk that way to keep their pants up. I bet their mamas don'tlike buying them those pants that hang around their dumb ankles." And she is saying all this so matter of factly and with such disgust you'd think she was an old lady. She also said, "Teenagers are dumb." I told her she would be one some day and she said, "Yeah but not one that looks stupid and wears my pants all around my ankles." Every time someone she deemed to look "dumb" walked by she would just get disgusted and point and say "Look at that!" like they had horns or something. One day we were going to the movies and there was this guy with a red bowling shirt on with dragons all over it and his hair was dyed the same color red - like Ronald McDonald red, and his little boy had on a blue shirt just like his dads. She looks at me and says, "Mama, they need to be on What Not To Wear." Now, I do teach my kids that looks don't matter and all that jazz, but I love that she does not dig the "dumb" look. My ten year old, however, when I told her the other day that something looked weird, says to me, "Mom, I don't follow trends, I set them." Well, rock on with your bad self in that case. Who am I of all people to argue with that one?